US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on July 8 for "Method and apparatus for encoding volumetric video represented as a multiplane image" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,006, issued on July 8, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for encoding volumetric video represented as a multiplane image" was invented by Julien Fleureau (Rennes, France), Renaud Dore (Rennes, France), Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France) and Thierry Tapie (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for generating a data stream representative of a volumetric video generated from a sequence of multi-plane images are disclosed. A quantization law depending on an angular resolution used to generate patches from the multi-plane images is set up. For each intra-periods ...